Amazon Prime is a special membership for Amazon.com customers which lets people who enroll enjoy free two-day shipping on all their purchases. Members can also opt to pay a small fee of $3.99 to get the item delivered in one day! Unfortunately, an Amazon Prime membership is somewhat costly; it comes with a $79 dollar annual fee, paid once per year. While this is a bargain for people who do most of their shopping through Amazon, the fee is difficult to justify for the casual Amazon bargain hunter.

Fortunately, Amazon allows new customers to try the service without any additional cost for up to 1 month. As long as you cancel your free trial on time or disable the auto renewal process, you’ll get free two-day shipping on all your Amazon purchases for a month without having to pay a cent! This sweetens all the current Black Friday/Cyber Monday offers and will help make your holiday shopping a breeze.

How to Sign Up for a Trial

If you’d like to sign-up for a free 1 month trial of Amazon Prime, click on this link or the image at the top. Once you follow the pretty straightforward instructions, you’ll get free two-day shipping on all your Amazon purchases!

The above link will only work if no one in your household has ever had a free trial of Amazon Prime. Otherwise, your trial won’t be processed or will be cancelled.

Don’t be afraid or turned off by the $79.00 annual fee- there’s a very easy way to disable the auto-renewal option and guarantee that you won’t be charged after your trial is over:

1. Navigate to the “Your Account” section of Amazon.com. It’s accessible on any page of Amazon.com, as shown below:

2. When you’re redirected to the Your Account page, click on “Manage Prime Membership” under the “More Order Actions” column in the “Orders” row.

3. Here, you’ll be able to manage your Amazon Prime Subscription. As a default, your trial is set to auto-renew. Fortunately, it’s very easy to turn off! Click the Do Not Upgrade button, as shown below:

4. A pop-up will come up on the same page. Click the “Turn off auto-upgrade” button on the left to complete the process and avoid a charge in the future!

5. If you want to make sure that Amazon Prime won’t continue charging you, take a peek at the Membership Information box. If you followed the steps correctly, it should read “Your trial membership will not upgrade to a full membership automatically…

Concluding Thoughts

However, I wouldn’t disable auto-renewal right away. If you try Amazon Prime and like it, you may want to swallow the fee. There’s something rewarding about placing an order at Amazon.com and then having it arrive in literally two days!

If you forget to turn off auto-renewal and are charged the membership after a month, don’t despair. The fee is refundable as long as you haven’t made any purchased through Amazon Prime outside of your trial period. You should be able to get any issue worked out with Amazon’s Customer Service. Try and make the most of your trial by trying and getting all your shopping done while it’s still active!

Get Free 2-Day Shipping on Your Purchases from Amazon.com is a post by Bogdan Semida from Notebooks.com.